L’Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky, 1997/1998)Peter Tscherkassky will be receiving the Underground Spirit Award for “outstanding work in independent filmmaking” at the Paliç European Film Festival this month, and it’s easy to see why. Two of the boys were about to aim a laser pointer at the other boy’s eyes. Luckily, I already had a highly sensitive orthochromatic film stock that worked with the laser pointer. Look for it before you find it.” So, while the laser pointer is precise, there’s a certain kind of randomness as well. The latter is an homage to the Lumière brothers, who made the very first train film: The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1896).